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THE
GOSPEL STANDARD,
OB
FEEBLE CHRISTIAN'S SUPPORT.
VOL. XIII. 1847.
LONDON:
R. GROOMBRIDGE AND SONS, No. 5, PATERNOSTER ROW. J. GADSBY, BOUVERIE-STREET, FLEET-STREET.
1847.
OR
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they
shall be filled."-Matt. v. 6.
"Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our
works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ
Jesus before the world began."-2 Tim. i. 9.
"The election hath obtained, and the rest were blinded."-Rom. xi. 7.
"If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.-And they went down
both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.-In the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost."-Acts vii. 37, 38;
Matt. xxviii. 19.
No. 133.
JANUARY, 1847. VOL. XIII.
AN ADDRESS TO OUR READERS.
VARIETY and originality can hardly be expected in every Annual
Address, which at this season we send forth as our New Year's
greeting to our numerous readers. The principles for which we
contend, the line of doctrinal and experimental truth which we
maintain, and the motives by which we are biassed in conducting
the Gospel Standard, must be sufficiently known not to need any
detailed explanation. If, after a monthly publication of more than
eleven years, our principles now required an explanation to be
known, such a circumstance would in itself alone be a charge against
us fatal to all honesty or even credit on the part of its Conductors.
We have never yet hoisted two flags, we have never worn a
mottled garment of linsey-woolsey fabric, we have never sown our
field with mingled grain, nor ploughed with an ox and an ass
together. (Lev. xix. 19; Deut. xxii. 10.) We have heard of preachers
so adroit in wrapping up their sentiments, that the Calvinistic part
of their congregation considered them to be sound Calvinists, whilst
the Arminian portion believed they had been duly run into the
approved mould of John Wesley. Nay, we believe there are few
A
MOTHE
J. GADSBY, WHITEFRIARS PRINTING OFFICE, BOUVERIE-STREET,
FLEET-STREET.